Usage:
Welden Limestone (OK*)
Geologic age:
Mississippian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: in railroad cut, in sec. 27, T. 3 N., R. 6 E., a few mi east of Ada, Pontotoc Co., central southern OK. Named from Welden Creek which crosses outcrop in same section. Outcrops are some 20 mi in length (Cooper, 1939).
AAPG geologic province:
Arkoma basin*
South Oklahoma folded belt*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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